Shelter to Shelter 2015!

We could not be more thrilled to announce our next road trip with Shelter to Shelter 2015! The Women’s Wisdom Initiative’s program Shelter to Shelter is an opportunity to…
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Sometimes it really makes a difference to hear in her own voice, a description of the creative process each woman experiences in the making of her card. “I feel like my…
Off-roading

I think about how a highway offers a slight time warp, like the idea of worm-holes in space instantaneously connecting immense distance. Highway protocol: enter via ramp, the…
Art Heals

“Art does not profess to rid the world of suffering and wounds- It does something with them, realizing that the soul is truly at a loss when afflictions canot be put to…

News from Juliette

For me, the only pursuit truly worth spending time on is social transformation: to catalyze our current, predominant socio-economic structure, which depends on human exploitation, the…

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News from Juliette

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Paying Attention

Caroline & Juliette

Traveling Postcards on their way home.

A New Year’s Reflection

2013 brought a year of change, growth and a spectacular trip across the country. Today my heart is a little heavy but oh so grateful for…

Rose Garden Interview

I had the pleasure of interviewing Michele Fuller, Director at S.A.F.E. House; an intimate partner, domestic violence shelter in Albuquerque, NM. We talked about the history…

A Traveling Postcard from Shelter to Shelter

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What value do you see that you have, based on what you just created?

Road Shots

As I sort through hundreds of images, I want to take a moment & share a few photographs of the road…the actual road! The freedom and…

Toni

Montana Thoughts

This morning we live in a ComfortInn in southeastern Kansas, a state I previously knew only by Dorothy’s departure from it. I never visited Missouri before…

Paying Attention

contributed by Janis McKinstry I know what it is to be wary and mistrusting of someone who says they are there to help. I know what…

Caroline & Juliette

Shelter

I wanted to write a little bit about the concept of shelter; our inherent need for protection and what finding personal space has meant to me…

My Journey with Shelter to Shelter: To & in Portland for Traveling Postcards

contributed by Lisa Rodondi This time last week, I was in a hotel room in Portland, Oregon exhausted after a long drive up…

Shelter to Shelter is an opportunity to raise awareness about the pervasive consequences of gender-based violence. At the same time, we hope to give voice and connection to survivors through the healing arts and to celebrate their resiliency and strength.

Each year we load up our van with art supplies and spend 2-5 weeks traveling to isolated communities, shelters and aid organizations.

After our successful 8000 mile trip across the country in 2013, we will again set out on the road this August, 2015 in our ‘mobile art booth’ with our Traveling Postcards workshop!

Our creative workshop offers compassionate listening, hope, visibility and connection. It is not used to “fix” someone but to engage with them clearly and without judgment. Each woman we meet, will be given an opportunity to share her resiliency through art and words and know that her wisdom is valued and needed.

The focus for our 2015 Shelter-to-Shelter trip is the international refugee community of Northern California and the Western States. After Texas, California receives the second highest influx of refugees to any US state; refugees in California come primarily from Iraq, Iran, Burma, and Somalia.

During times of war, sexual violence is waged on women’s bodies and spirits as a means of terror and control. Many women arrive in the US with scars of trauma and humiliation. Once relocated, women refugees experience a higher rate of gender inequality due to the extreme instability displacement causes, and they are often reluctant to speak of their abuse for fear of deportation, discrimination and disrespect.

The art and stories collected will be documented here and archived in the Women’s Wisdom Library so that women’s voices can travel, connect and inspire all women to use their most powerful tool for social change- their heart’s wisdom!

Come along for the ride! We will post photos and updates and share where we go and what we learn. It promises to be an adventure of the heart!

If you would like to meet us along the way or know a refugee center for us to visit, please let us know!